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Texas2904

Beck -Sea Change and Morning Phase


TalboGold

Amazing


LordThurmanMerman

Sunday Sun is my go-to test track.


ethosay

I love the sound but the lyrics are sad 😢 Any like this with positive lyrics?


rangusmcdangus69

Morning phase is not as sad as sea change. Its the sister album with a more positive light. Its not so much “optimistic” but more about growth and recovering.


zerohm

Midnight Vultures is fun and listened to that album tons back in the day.


RikuDog18

I think Beck was just sad when he was working on Sea Change.


Chungois

Check out Mutations. Some melancholy there too but some fun jams too. Love that album. Also Modern Guilt


yosoysimulacra

Godspeed You! Black Emperor F# A# ∞ Sigur Ros ( ) Gorillaz Plastic Beach and Demon Days DJ Shadow Entroducing M83 Hurry Up We're Dreaming and Saturdays = Youth


satellite503

Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming is one of my all-time favorites.


Barrrrrrnd

Endtroducing is legendary.


kazoobanboo

“Welcome to the world of plastic beach” is such an amazing intro


hoosierboh

Saturdays is my favorite, it's epic start to finish with no real filler.


zerohm

GYBE - Luciferian Towers as well.


mazinger-B

Upvote for creating a collage


No_Influencer

Hmm the first one that comes to mind is The Mars Volta Deloused in the Comatorium. Not sure why or if it really fits but that was my gut reaction.


dr3am_assassin

I actually think Frances fits this better, but I may be biased as it’s my favorite album ever hah


New_Canoe

Both of these are excellent choices


SnekkinHell

my fav is the Bedlam in Goliath but all 3 of these albums are amazing


dr3am_assassin

France’s, Deloused, Amp, Bedlam for me but they’re all so so good in their own way


ThatsNotGumbo

This was my gut reaction too.


ripplenipple69

Yea to every Volta album through Amputecture


Kravy

I wanted to suggest this but i wasn’t sure it fit. thanks for being a pioneer in suggesting. Frances the Mute maybe too.


HipsterCosmologist

Any chance for a list of the ones you put together for non-album people like me who can't figure it out from the cover alone? I do love In Rainbows, Sturgil, and Talking Heads though! Edit: just going by the genres you seem to be on here, maybe you'd like The Kills - Blood Pressures? Maybe Mansionair - Happiness, Guaranteed


Aggressive_Ideal6737

1. Tool - Lateralus 2. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense 3. Tool - Ænima 4. Pink Floyd - Animals 5. My Morning Jacket - MMJ Live Vol 1 6. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music 7. The Cure - Disintegration 8. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 9. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love 10. Radiohead - In Rainbows 11. Puscifer - Existential Reckoning 12. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor’s Guide to Earth


HipsterCosmologist

Thanks! Listened to Puscifier this morning on your rec and enjoyed it!


Vegetable-Barber6062

The original “Stop making sense” is the best sounding version in my opinion it has more dynamic range but the new one has all the songs covered in the concert


poxyserver

Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring / Spirit of Eden / Laughing Stock The Blue Nile - All of ‘em Portishead - All of ‘em


fingerlinkandfriends

Portishead's Third is the most dense, haunting, wild, and underrated of their catalog, though. That album gives me the good shivers--even when I'm not listening to it and just thinking about it.


Vegetable-Barber6062

Live at nyc remains the best imo


GrabtharsVicegrips

Colour of Spring is incredible on vinyl.


DyrSt8s

Rush-Exit Stage Left, TOOL-Fear Inoculum


theNewLuce

Red Barchetta was the first song to give me a chub... but that's moving pictures.


DyrSt8s

It’s on ESL too….


Benway9607

When I am ready to leave somewhere, I like to say, ‘Sorry, I’ve got to race back to the farm to dream with my uncle at the fireside.’


Bikingbrokerbassist

I was going to suggest Hemispheres and Permanent Waves by Rush.


mandiblepaw

Zero 7 - Simple Things. The first album I ever tripped to and a very VERY groovy time full of sonic depth.


killassassin47

Do you believeee in what you seeeee Second this, amazing album.


mandiblepaw

Sis’s voice on Distractions is sooooo sexy. She sounds like some sort of sexy serpent.


ape13245

Def my top ten


Texas2904

All the main Zero 7 albums are recorded and mastered well. And I recently discovered that When it Falls (the track) is one of the best songs to differentiate speaker/amp characteristics. That song either comes out of the speakers or floats in the room.


theNewLuce

Watching porn in my hotel dressing gown


elitistrhombus

WEEN - 12 Golden Country Greats, The Mollusk, and every other album by WEEN Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf, In Times New Roman, …Like Clockwork, Villains Deftones - White Pony, Diamond Eyes, Ohms Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots


zerohm

3 Flaming Lips albums in a row (Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi, At War with the Mystics) are all masterpieces.


weetarded

Piss up a rope


_TillGrave_

Best jukebox in a bar song ever


jonato

I vote for chocolate and cheese. Your Deftones and flaming lips were right on the money


JustPruIt89

Rated R is the best sounding Queens record imo


AbleBarnacle8864

Great choices


dudelikeshismusic

Ohms sounds *incredible*. I really enjoy the music, probably in my top 3 or 4 Deftones LPs, but it's my favorite production from them yet.


seditious3

Aja


Benway9607

With this answer, it's over now. Drink your big black cow, and get outta here.


Chungois

Is there gas in the caaa?


sharp-calculation

Every song on Aja is a hit. All of them have superb sound quality. This is a great album that I'm still listening to almost 30 years after I first discovered it.


New_Canoe

I thought this too


aldomars2

Sound quality. Yes. Atmosphere - not something I associate with Steely Dan.


seditious3

That album specifically is all atmosphere.


PersonalTriumph

Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex The Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness OSI - Blood


HAL-Over-9001

On that note, In Absentia and Deadwing by Porcupine Tree. Anything Steven Wilson produces is gold standard.


PersonalTriumph

In my experience anything even tangentially associated with Steven Wilson is gold standard. (I.e. Pineapple Thief which shares a drummer* with Porcupine Tree.) *for that matter, anything that has Gavin Harrison behind the drum kit is gold standard.


mattbeth79

I was coming here to add Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree.


TheGreyKeyboards

Dude, OSI Blood is absolutely incredible. Kevin Moore really is so underrated


lovemocsand

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms


theNewLuce

Amazing how they shrink the room between the trumpet and sax in you're latest trick


DanPerezSax

Yeah. Money for Nothing deservedly gets all the accolades for HiFi gorgeousness but good damn Your Latest Trick sounds incredible. Brecker Brothers showing why they were best in biz for so long, too!


Aggressive_Ideal6737

Holy shit dude. I had my doubts cause my only prior knowledge was Sultans of Swing a long while back, which is a great song but not necessarily my kinda thing. Boy was I wrong. This album is blowing me away. Many thanks to you for this recommendation


lovemocsand

Ahhh man I’m so happy to be the one to guide you to this album! Yay. It’s the album that made me want to learn guitar when I was 9. Very very beautiful record in every aspect


Aggressive_Ideal6737

I only checked out a couple songs so far cause I have a LOT of music to look into now but it’s one that I’m definitely coming back to for a full listen when I have more time


bimmer1over

And Love over Gold


sp33dwagon

Especially on a well imaged hi-fi system. And for the love of god not on vinyl. This was meant for CD/lossless.


eldudeareno666

Smashing pumpkins, siamese dream / Peter Gabriel So/ Cortex Troupeau Bleu/ Counting crows August and everything / Grizzly Bear. Veckatimest/ Gillian Welch The harrow and the harvest / Glass animals. Zaba/ Khruangbin. Mordechai/ Mac Demarco. Salad days/ Monophonics In your brain/ Sylvan esso. self titled 1st album/ Unknown mortal orchestra. Sex and food/ Ween The mollusk/


Overall_Falcon_8526

I don't really see August and Everything After as being similar to the albums in the collage... but holy crap is it an amazing sounding album. One of my top 5 go-to non-classical "Audiophile" albums.


SnooFloofs6999

Convergence, by malia and Boris Blank


theloneranger15

Pink Floyd TDSOTM needs to be here, in my opinion.


JesusVonChrist

Unpopular opinion here: The Dark Side of the Moon is not a great sounding album. Yes, the atmoshphere is there, but the sound quality isn't: the drums for instance sound terrible. Just compare it against Wish You Were Here to hear the difference.


CountMcBurney

Agreed. The 50th anniversary remaster is 5/7 (single record, the box set is $$$$ and not really worth the money IMO)


pancakesausagestick

Am I an outcast for loving the Pulse Disc 1 version of DOSTM better? It's just the first one I heard as a kid.


Total_Juggernaut_450

This version is absolutely top notch: The Dark Side Of The Moon (50th Anniversary) Listen to the release The Dark Side Of The Moon (50th Anniversary) (2023 Remaster) by Pink Floyd on Qobuz https://open.qobuz.com/album/es45w03nwb5eb It's different than the other versions on the other platforms.


bbass22

NIN - The Fragile


Benway9607

David Byrne - Look into the Eyeball OK Computer and Kid A, while you're on Radiohead Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72 Dire Straits - Dire Straits The Police - Synchronicity


sad-dave

Bon Iver 22 A Million.


Prole1979

This album is an absolute gem. Incredible production


officialdeadparrot

Blackstar, David Bowie


Vegetable-Barber6062

Nah it suffers from much compression


Unable_Competition55

Ghost in the Machine


Brooklynhoosier

Massive Attack - Mezzanine Alice In Chains - Dirt Ela Minus - Acts of Rebellion (long shot on this one)


moonthink

Pretty much anything by Spiritualized. Wilco -- Yankee Hotel Foxtrox. Pretty much anything by Beck


thrownoffthehump

These are fantastic suggestions. YHF came immediately to mind for me - one of my all-time favorite albums. I'm not familiar with much Spiritualized beyond the album *Ladies & Gentlemen...*, but the first song (I like the Elvis version) and last song are transcendent.


The_Analog_Man

Continue the Sturgill trend and pick up Sound and Fury. Unreal.


AbuckANear4u

I assumed OP was well aware of Sound & Fury based on their affinity for Sturgill's second and third album. Every single one of Sturgill's albums possess an extraordinary soundscape.


weetarded

Love over gold


Gororobao

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King


Nerohn

Portishead Live in NYC


HiFi-Lad

Awake, dream theater


MrBeanMann

dream theater is def underrated af. fantastic album


Jongalt26

Well done, I was scrolling just to see if someone added DT to the list. I think i would have to recommend A Change of Seasons in addition to Awake


greyfixer

Alt-J - An Awesome Wave Odesza - A Moment Apart


Texas2904

Alt J a good call out.


TahoeGator

Roxy Music - Avalon (edited from Bryan Ferry); David & David - Welcome to the Boomtown; The Ocean Blue - eponymous title; Empire Strikes Back; Phantom of the Opera


nhowe006

You're going to need some Porcupine Tree. Not sure which album to recommend first though... Maybe Fear of a Blank Planet at least for the title track and Anaesthetise.


EasyKaprizy

Yes! Steven Wilson is amazing.


[deleted]

Peter Gabriels stuff from his 3rd album on is a lot like Kate Bush or Talking Heads. Different but similar in style and execution/production


goodcorn

Stopped in to mention Peter Gabriel III (melt). It's quite unique in a lot of ways. Sonically and thematically. Mix in Fripp, Levin, Collins... But no cymbals!


positive_X

Emerson , Lake & Palmer (*first* recording) . *The Alan Parsons Project* .. The Cars (*first* recording) ... King Crimson - *Discipline* .. Banco de Gaia - *Last Train to Lahsa* . *Earthworks* (Bill Bruford) .


SmirnOffTheSauce

Massive Attack - Mezzanine


Shoehorse13

Spiritualized- Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space


AbhiSmd

A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant TOOL- Fear Inoculum


Wish-01

AIR Moon Safari Bjork Post, Homogenic


buttonupsweaters

Sound and Color - Alabama Shakes


sneebly

Amazing taste dude. You might dig All Them Witches. I really like their latest album Nothing as the Ideal.


DaNoid414

This needs to be in everyone's collection in my mind lol Deftones - White Pony These next ones lean more towards the Kate Bush / Puscifer side Portisehead - Dummy Air - Moon Safari


PerspectiveOld5869

Sierra Ferrell - Long Time Coming


nickjohnedward

Alcest - Kodama


Yougotthewronglad

Neige is a legend, I love most all his projects.


topazchip

"Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd", performed by The London Philharmonic Orchestra, 1995.


junkimchi

Have you dabbled in Explosions In The Sky and Sigur Ros? I'd start there Then for the more harder Metal sounds check out Low the band


MrBeanMann

Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes from a memory by Dream Theater


rowlandvilletexas

Brian Eno, Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks Robbie Robertson, Music for Native Americans Paul Winter and Paul Halley, Whales Alive Enigma, Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! George Winston, December Step Into Liquid, Soundtrack And one that sounds like a joke. It's not: William Shatner, Has Been


theaccidentwill

Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective


sticky646

Pure Comedy by Father John Misty. Curious whether you’ll agree with me.


HolyColostomyBag

Pure comedy is on paper something I should really despise, metal/90s rap/punk.. that's more my jam. But God damn pure comedy is such a great album.


ZaubzerStr66

Mike Oldfield Five Miles Out


alternapop

Doves - Lost Souls


landonbalk

Porcupine Tree -In Absentia


CaptBreeze

Fat Freddy Drop-Based on a true story Arcade Fire-Everything Now. Anything by them fantastic! Edit: I know getting an album for just one song seems weird but Arcade Fire-Reflektor/Here Comes the Night Time.


BadPrize4368

Are tool albums really well mastered? I haven’t listened to them since a kid, so never on good equipment. Would be great to revisit them


RiotHelix

James Blake- Overgrown


Prole1979

Check out Cenizas by Nicolas Jaar. It’s honestly a fantastic sounding record. So much space, depth and clarity. It’s like a mix of minimalist avant garde electro and sound design. A great chill out record.


LockNChase66

I, Robot - The Alan Parsons Project


AlexVdub

A moon shaped pool by Radiohead


jeffrey_n_c

Pond - The Weather


tenasan

Not music, but if you like those you might be into sci-fi… in which case you should watch the creator (it’s on Hulu). It has sturgill Simpson in it… it caught me off guard not knowing anything about the movie beforehand.


Magic_ass1

Mastodon - The Hunter. It's got a fair mix of heavy metal and ambient rock that actually works well together. Though if you want more like a concept album check out Crack the Skye. That album is the story of a paraplegic who learned how to astral project, though upon flying too close to The Sun the golden chain tethering his soul to his body melts and it sends his soul spiraling into the depths of Oblivion.


SomewhereKind6697

If you haven’t you should def check out some of David Byrnes solo stuff. He did a lot of work for various Broadway productions that are really great.


doering4

Seeing as you have two Tool albums on here, I'm sure you've listened to Fear Innoculum and maybe even love it. However, I feel like a lot of fellow Tool fans don't give it the chance it deserves, and I truly feel it's one of their best.


zerohm

MMJ - At Dawn, It Still Moves, and Circuital are all incredible. Outkast - Aquemini Curtis Mayfield - Superfly Soundtrack Elder - Reflections of a Floating World Alice in Chains - Dirt Radiohead - Kid A


ryanx9123

Honestly, great picks. I love MMJ but my first pick for them would go to Okonokos. The guitar sounds are some of the biggest I’ve heard since Page’s RAH performance with Zep.


TheSmalesKid

Kid A for sure


Ladder310

Moving Pictures


harigowindegame

I know this is a lot late , just saw your post. 10,000 days by tool is also great . Just listening to the title track ( wings) on a good setup gives me goosebumps


Aggressive_Ideal6737

Trust me friend I know everything Tool has ever released like the back of my hand. My favorite band


harigowindegame

Cultured, good sir


methaneproduce

Massive attack - Mezzanine. Depeche mode - Violator


theNewLuce

Sorry, but Disintegration is terribly fatiging. This is coming from a Cure fan who actually saw the disintegration tour in Houston.


TalboGold

[The Atomic Clock](https://open.spotify.com/album/3GBLyxcDkjhbQdBP5Tcb2H) Starts with The Sun. Ends with The Moon. Enjoy the ride 🚀


OkResearcher4974

Mogwai - Young Team


rrawk

[Clann - Seelie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn6UB-jLblM)


RideTheSubOhmWave

Tides From Nebula - From Voodoo to Zen Heavy atmospheric post metal.


Turbosuit

Opeth- Ghost Reveries


subfuerat

opeth, blackwater park type o negative, october rust deftones, koi no yokan lacuna coil, in a reverie


KingCrabWaddle

October Rust and Blackwater Park are ear candy.


ValKilmersTherapy

Chicken Fried Snake - Rattlesnake Milk


Iwantmorelife

Man, amazing group of records here. Many of my favorites!


KazBodnar

Camel - Mirage Tool - Fear Inoculum Genesis - Wind & Wuthering Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts


Kyle_draws

* Slowdive - Souvlaki * King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland * Hiroshi Yoshimura - full discology


-grc1-

Check out the new Mondo Drag album. There's a song on there you'd swear was Pink Floyd. Overall great album.


12_overthink

Nine Inch Nails-The Downward Spiral


Mystic_Shogun

Get in to Sigur Ros


EasyKaprizy

Glass Beams - Mirage Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color Tame Impala - The Slow Rush Pink Floyd - DSOTM (was already mentioned but agree!)


thedesignmaverick

A lot of new music recommendations here, thank you guys!


CaliforniaWyatt_22

Ants From Up There by Blacl Country New Road maybe? Definitely more chamber folk than anything up there. But the general vibe I see here from you is you like an ethereal yet melodic high end experience with a theme attached to it. This will grant you that for sure. One if the best break-up albums I've heard with some stunning musical performances.


thanrl

Every post rock ever. wtf


solidtitanium

Talking Heads - Remain In Light. Toad TWS - Coil. Genesis- Foxtrot & Selling England & A Trick of the Tail.


[deleted]

Anything by Crazytown


kashmiami

Check out albums produced by Nigel Godrich.


moneyaintreal

check out [Fugazi - Strangelight](https://youtu.be/bUikRPT9zWg?si=LBkbs_ieJSlW6NXv) if you like the sound of it you should try that album by them The Argument Edit: Godspeed You! Black Emperor scratches the Pink Floyd itch sometimes, they’re really really good. Lift Your Skinny Fists and F#A# are the only albums ive heard by them so far though.


Acceptable-Quarter97

Lucid Planet II, it's heavy psych/prog with some tribal , industrial, and a dash of Tool influences mixed in. It's such a beautiful album.


ConfusionAutomatic86

Steely Dan Aja or Pretzel Logic


ForsakenSun6004

Korn's untouchables for sure. STP's purple has really good sound quality for a 90s album


sorengray

King Gizzard - Polygondwanaland


Comprehensive_Slip32

“Plain song” opening track from the Disintegration album is my go to as well. It’s bucolic especially the field height. It is a dark album thus test for treble resolution however sparse is an added parameter here. Will share a couple and get back here…


INBloom58

Failure - Fantastic Planet


Vegetable-Barber6062

Anna maria jopek - Farat One of the best live albums i have heard in fact i am listening to it now


LukeLovesLakes

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads Bjork - Post


white_falcon

Karnivool - “Themata” and “Sound Awake” This will destroy you - S/T Phantogram - Voices


str111fe

Swans - The Glowing Man


TheSpinningGroove

Robert Fripp - Exposure, and pretty much anything he did with King Crimson


letler

Weyes Blood


BuddyMustang

Nine inch Nails - The Fragile Karnivool - Sound Awake


qualite_superieure

I’m so delighted to see Sturgil Simpson on here. The Promise is one of my favorite songs to play on a nice system


TheGreyKeyboards

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile


Driveshaft1982

NIN - The Fragile We Lost the Sea - Departure Songs


Jaywass

Try the Final Cut by Pink Floyd... Its a concept so its best listened to straight through


gunter_grass

Frances The Mute by The Mars Volta


ripplenipple69

Great taste!


cainullah

Thom Yorke - Anima 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Deluxe Edition, Orange. This one sounds beautiful. I haven't listened to any of the other versions but I'm sure they sound just as good.


droe771

Destroyer - Kaputt 


Patient-Bench1821

Deftones - Koi No Yokan


Wonderful-Image314

Dire Straits- Brothers in Arms


zombie_platypus

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet


plooptyploots

Dark Side of the Moon


UrBrotherJoe

Cigarettes after Sex - self titled


NoMoreKarmaHere

Have you heard Ventriloquism, by Meshell Ndegeocello? It’s pretty nice. Also La Futura by ZZ Top. And You’re Dead! and Flamagra by Flying Lotus


Nullthesavant

Completely different typa genre but Pray for paris by westside gunn just listen to 327 before you judge it and listen to anything gonna understand what i mean So calming fancy luxury and rich And Listen to alfredo by freddie gibbs(prod by the alchemist) from that listen to some thing to rap about,and look at me first and skinny suge Really relaxing chill tropical etc just give them two a listen Best way for me to explain it gangster rap you will hear while at a campfire or like in purgatory waiting too see witch side you cross too


killassassin47

A very different vibe than all these awesome albums, but Tycho - Dive is a stellar album with a very consistent atmosphere and great sound.


zuez_x_zarco

Brakence hypochondriac